The village of Rockdale budget was $3.24 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $5,941.27 per household.
That's an increase of 5.7 percent from 2014 when the village spent $3.06 million, or $5,623.42 per household.
Rockdale has 545 households and a population of 1,957.
Since 2001, the village of Rockdale budget has fallen by 20.7 percent, from $4.08 million. The village population has grown 3.7 percent over the same period, from 1,888.
Salaries accounted for 19.3 percent of village spending in 2015. Rockdale property taxpayers paid $624,727.56 for 11 full-time employees and 16 part-time employees.
In 2001, the village had nine full-time employees and four part-time employees and spent $522,460.46.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.